Mission Statement

We are the bucket list generation. We want to LIVE, not just exist until we die, we want to EXPERIENCE, we want to HAVE BEEN THERE, DONE THAT.

I assume we all have those moments of envy, longing, satisfaction, seeing or reading about someone doing something, when our whole being says "Yes! I want to do that!"
The first step for any dream to come true is to acknowledge you have that dream.

There's several sites and projects online to help people to make their dreams come true.

• Bucketlist
• Day Zero project
• my 50

 A lot of that is about people reading others' lists and going "that sounds interesting, I want to do that, too!"

But that's just the first step. That doesn't take you much further from just wishing, wanting and dreaming. I have taken that step hundreds of times. My "to do" -list, "bucket list", "101 things in 1001 days" -list, "50 things before 50" -list; my List, is mile long. I need help to get from dreaming to doing.

I am not alone. Most people have these lists, and some of us actually manage to tick off things from our lists, but those are a minority.  Well... most of us manage to tick off a couple of things from the list, but as the lists are much longer than a couple of things, it doesn't make much difference. So, how did we manage to do those few things? What makes the people who actually can tick off things from their lists different from the rest of us? How can I become one of them?

This blog was created to record my journey from a dreamer to a doer, and I hope it will help others to realize their dreams as well, and becoming from a LIST generation to a LIVE generation.

Having a list of things is not going to do much. It just sits there, giving the impression of that I'm doing something to make my dreams come true, but that's not the case, is it? You aren't really DOING anything by writing bucket lists. Sure, it's the first step, and a necessary step (at least for most of us. :-D There are those who get an idea and start doing it right away.)

Not all dreams are equal. Not all dreams are true. Not all dreams are yours. You will find out what do you REALLY want with time. To begin with, write down everything you might want to try or do, without thinking about priorities, but as you work with your goals, the priorities will appear. You see, if it's important, you will find a way. You will make the time. You will do it. If not, you will find excuses. You will "forget". You will rather do other things.

So how ever much you "want" something, if you haven't find time to take ANY further steps to reach your goal within a year, scrap that "dream". It's not yours. It's not important to you.
I read somewhere... there was a writer or a musician, who was told once again, "I wish I could do what you do!", to which he/she responded: "No, you don't. If you did, you'd do." 
Maybe it's just the lifestyle you dream of. The power. The ability to change people's lives. I don't know. Find out what it is, and reach for THAT goal.

Some dreams are not realistically possible. At least not right now. Don't let that stop you from dreaming. Find out what would make the dream more realistic.

For example, the likelihood of me ever becoming a mother is very small.
I would have better changes if I was lighter and had more money.
I can lose weight and I can get money. If I REALLY want to become a mother, I'll lose the weight and get the money, and I'll get myself pregnant.
Apparently, as I am still overweight and penniless, I don't REALLY want to become a mother.
After all, I could start having one night stands, just to get pregnant, like millions of other women do, without needing to lose weight and get money. But I don't even do that.

Another dream I have is to visit space.
It's the same thing there. If I was 15, I could get myself in the army, learn to fly, become a pilot and seek for the space program of my country.
I'm not. So my only way of visiting space is either building a space rocket, or paying for the trip.
In both cases, it would be better if I was fit.
I'm not doing anything to become fit and rich enough to pay for the trip. Nor am I studying space engineering, or physics or rocket science, to be able to build a space rocket.

Some people dream about riding a flying unicorn...
Well... There are no flying unicorns. At least, if by that you mean an actual, living, breathing creature, very much like a horse with wings and a horn on the forehead.
It is possible to give a regular, ordinary horse a fake horn and wings, and it's possible to rent a helicopter, strap the horse under it, and then ride a "flying unicorn". It's just not advisable :-D
Or you could become an actor in a fantasy movie and appear to fly a unicorn.
So - what would be almost as good? Perhaps it would do to ride a real horse, with no horns or wings? Ride an ostrich (to have the feeling of a living, winged being under you and carrying you forth through the air... because even if the ostrich cannot fly, it can run pretty fast, and it might be the closest thing anyone of us ever gets to flying on the back of an animal.) Or get a motorcycle and name it "Flying Unicorn"... >:->

Some dreams need to be adjusted a little.

A lot of us don't really believe we are worthy our dreams. I know I don't. I am afraid of failure, I'm afraid of success and the consequences of that. I'm afraid of not being able to keep my promises to myself. I'm afraid of how my life will change. I'm afraid of a lot of things, and choose the instant gratification, comfort and "safety" in stead of taking the risk... even when the gain would be everything I've ever dreamed of, and the loss would be nothing... In most cases the worst thing that can happen is "no" - that is, nothing changes. I'd still be able to sit on my couch and write blog entries :-D Nevertheless, I don't dare to risk nothing to gain everything. (Not really "nothing" - it's a question of risking the comfort and instant gratification. And it would be absolutely horrible, not being able to sit and do "nothing much".... :-D)

Added 19/3-15: The Ultimate Bucket List Resource Guide

How to compose your list

A bucket list is a list of things YOU WANT TO DO.
The idea of having 10, 100 or 10.000 is that there are that much things to do, experience, live, learn, see, hear, taste, feel, smell in the world that are pleasurable, enjoyable, lovable, likable... worth to experience. 

Bucket List is not a competition. It's a promise. It's personal.  It's something that doesn't need to have any importance for anyone but you, or any meaning, but it should have both importance and meaning to you. There are no "places you must see, things you should do", just places and things. Totally yours to pick and choose from.

If there were no obstacles; you have all the money you need, all the equipment, all the health and energy and capacity, what would you do? If you weren't afraid of anything...

Think back to when you were a kid. What did you want to do when you grow up?

Whom do you envy?  Start carrying a small notebook with you where you write every time you feel the envy or longing inside you when you see, read or hear about someone doing something or getting something or experiencing something.

Look at these different areas of your life and imagine how a life would be, look, if it was "perfect". How do the people live you wish you were like? What do they do? What do they have in their lives?

Self improvement is often a big thing in bucket lists, even when it's really not part of this. It's kind of assumed that we all continue to grow and learn as long as we live.

Money, economy and financial goals and wishes.

Sensory experiences. Foods you'd like to taste, music you'd like to hear... 
Are there some concerts you'd like to attend?
Any shows / performances you'd like to see?
Any events you'd want to witness? From birth of a foal to space rocket launch.
Festivals and happenings? "I was there doing that then..."?

You win the lottery of the century and get so much money you can't even count that much. Money is NEVER EVER going to be any problem to you. What do you do?
What would you do if you won million dollars?

How about relationships? Family, parents, siblings, children; other relatives? Friends? Neighbors? Community? Colleagues? 
How about love and romance?

How do you want your home life to look? Where do you live? How is your home decorated? Do you live on the road?

Would you like to learn to cook or bake, or perhaps brew your own beer or something?

Do you want to simplify your life, organize and declutter? Or perhaps get a collection like Jay Walker or Alex Jordan?

You happen to rub something in an antique store, and a genie appears. The genie gives you three wishes. What do you wish?

Fun and games? Hobbies?

What would you create? Food? Art? Stories? Crafted items? 

What would be an adventure to you?
What would be an experience to be proud of?
What experience would be thrilling?
What would you want to experience if you knew no-one else would ever know...? (You don't even need to publish those wishes... just try to find a way to do it...)
Witnessing what would make you happy just remembering it?

Imagine you received an anonymous letter to your birthday.
You open the letter and read that you happen to share a birthday with an eccentric billionaire and have been chosen among all who were born the same day you were born to receive a gift, an amazing experience, mind-blowing, fantastic, a dream come true!
What is it?

Health and fitness?

Physical goals are also a biggie in the world of bucket lists. A lot of people would like to run a marathon, for example.

Travel is the #1 theme of bucket lists. Where would you travel, if money wasn't an issue? (Or anything, like the bother of traveling, hygiene, food, sickness, political situation...) What would you like to see? Which festivals and street parties would you like to have been part of?
Are there some historical places you'd want to see because the event was important to you?
Are there any places you'd like to see because of a family connection?

How about classes and courses, education, learning new things and skills?

Are there any animals or plants or geological formations or natural phenomenon you'd like to see?

Do you have any career wishes? Status wishes?
Highschool reunion. You are exactly what you want to be. What and who are you? Rich? Beautiful? Successful? In your dream profession? In a dream relationship? Good and kind? Active? Passive? What?

So - another visualizing exercise... Close your eyes and relax...
You are happy, relaxed, enthusiastic... you are smiling, and have no what so ever negative feelings or thoughts. It doesn't matter what others think. It doesn't matter if others like it. 
What are you doing? Reading? Painting? Gardening? Cooking? Playing with your pet?

How about spirituality?

What would be meaningful and important? Who are your heroes? Whom do you look up to? Gandhi? MLK? Princess Diana? Mother Theresa? Who in the world history has done something extraordinary, heroic, important, powerful and amazing, and what is that they did?

Would you like to donate and volunteer and share caring and kindness in your community or in the world?
Are there any injustices and problems you would like to straighten, and what could you do about them?

How do you see the future and what can you do today to prepare for that future?

Are there any sports you'd like to try?

Who are your ideals and role models? Whom would you like to meet? With whom would you like to talk?

What could you do to be more like them?

Imagine you are a grandparent and tell stories of your life to your grandchildren. They look up to you, expectant, excited, and they sure have reason to, because you have had some experiences... you have lived... you have stories to tell!
What are they?

So, what are you afraid of? Write down 10 things you consider would be the "worst things possible", and... face your fears. Create yourself a 12 steps' program to follow so that in a year you are less scared of those things. Think if you were participating in Fear Factory... what would you meet that would stop you? Don't let it...

What dreams would you like to see come true?
What skills would you like to acquire?
What hobbies would you like to pursue?
What accomplishments would you like to achieve?
What fantasies would you like to act out?
What things have you seen other people do or accomplish and you thought, “Wow, that’s pretty cool! I’d love to do that!”?
What achieved challenges would give you the biggest confidence boost?
Are there things you would really, really like to be good at, but you doubt your capacity to do so? Go for it...

What if you were to die in a year? What would you do the last 12 months of your life?
If you have lost someone, what do you wish e had done before e died? How do you wish e had spend the last 12 months of e's life?

If you woke up tomorrow and didn't know anything about yourself, what would you like to find out?

What are you putting forward to tomorrow, or "when you have time" or "when you take the vacation" or "when you are retired"? Are you saving something for "that special day"? That special day is today. Perhaps tomorrow, if you are reading this on an afternoon or evening :-D

What do you regret? It's never too late. Not even if you regret not participating in the Olympics...

What would you want people to say at your funeral?

Read this article: How to Turn Goals into Strategies. It's actually wrongly named, as it's about the exact opposite - how to turn strategies into goals. It asks the very important question. What is it you wish to reach with the goal? How do you think you'd feel the day when you reach the goal?

"Get married" might actually mean "find someone who loves me for the rest of my life and share my life with him/her". Getting married is easy. Staying married and loving your spouse as your best friend, your confidant, your favorite companion, your support and comfort, that's difficult.

"Get fit" might actually mean "have energy to do all the things you want to do". Or "get sincere compliments for my looks and believe them", or "get small enough to buy the clothes I want".

I also recomment the following articles at DaVinci Dilemma - even if you don't consider yourself "multitalented"
How to take inventory of your talents
Stumped Talents - poll the audience
Make your mess your message

Have 100/1000/10000 goals on my list

This is also a goal that can be achieved quickly and right now, without any money, friends or special equipment.

There is an easy way of doing this (sort of cheating) and the proper way of doing this

The easy way:

- find as many lists you can and copy them

- find long lists, like 1000 movies to see in your lifetime or 1000 best books, and make each item an individual entry.

- There are tons of movie related lists online. 20 films of dogs, zombies, feminist movies, all the movies with "red" in the title, French movies, Spanish movies, Azerbaijani movies... and new ones are being made all the time

- post the same goal several times

- say it using different words and different spelling

- find lists with many shared items, so that you can check off an item from multiple lists

- try to find out as many possible "goals" you can from everything you do. Like "meet --- / have a photo taken with --- / shake ---'s hand / get ---'s autograph" That's already four goals. And you can multiply these four goals with as many people as you like. Celebrities, actors, authors, musicians, politicians, Santa Claus, Easter Bunny...

- Take a cook book and start from the beginning: "Cook ---" There is 4.500 recipes in Joy of Cooking. You can also add "cook every recipe from a cook book" to your list.

- Find out every food ingredient on earth and add it to your bucket list as "eat --- / try --- / taste ---"

- add all the possible surveys on-line. Write your own 5000 questions list.

- List things. "My favorite bands, books, movies, tv series, colors, hair ornaments, shoes, labels, foods..."

- collections. "Have 10/20/25/50/75/100/200/300 ---" and add any number

- own/have/buy/try/get (every item of a certain label / merchandise /what ever)

- use the same idea to generate goals when it comes to other things.
"See/watch/experience/be awake at sunrise /with ---(best friend, boyfriend, mother, cousin, namesake, whoever)/ in (all the places you wish to visit)/ on (rooftop, hill, tree, ocean, what ever) / naked, dressed in ---, dressed as ---"

- "celebrate ---" There's an ocean of "national day of ---" and other such observances and celebrations. Write each and every one on your list as a specific goal

- to get more, elaborate each of these. "Celebrate the pig in blanket day / wrapped in a blanket / eating pigs in blanket / you have made yourself / watching movies about pigs-in-blanket / in what ever place fits the idea."

- anniversaries - there are more themed wedding anniversaries than silver and gold wedding. There's a theme for every year from 1-50, 55th, 60th, 65th, 67th, 75th, 80th, 85th, 90th and 100th. And nothing stops you from creating anniversaries for ANYTHING that has happened or that you wish to happen to you and theme them accordingly, and celebrate them.

- drive (any vehicle/transportation method)

- ride (anything that can be ridden)

- visit all the amusement parks, carnivals, theme parks etc on earth and list every attraction as one goal.

- make a cover of all the songs / learn to play all the songs by any instrument invented

- learn to play any instrument

- play any game invented / invent a game - list them individually and in groups, as many as you can come up with

- visit every country, every continent, every capital

- write a list of all the restaurants in your home town, and the closest bigger cities, if you don't live in one with many restaurants

- learn every language / learn to say something in any language. There are as many words and sentences as you care to add to your bucket list...

- learn things by heart. 10 poems, 10 bible verses, 10 foreign words... and  variate the number.

- visit every lighthouse, hotel, restaurant, national park, temple and church...

- 1) get a camera
2) learn to use the camera
3) start taking photos
4) have a "photo album of ..." All blue things, purple things, white things, trees, hearts, stars, skulls, Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer, flowers, animals, pets, hands, numbers, letters, things that start with a letter, things in pairs, threes, fours, fives... just go to Pinterest to get ideas of what kind of "photo albums" you could have.
You can choose to have these photo albums on-line or print out the photos and have real photo albums.
This list is never-ending. There are all kinds of photography challenges and lists online. Fodder...

The proper way

30 things you can tick off your bucketlist right away

There are several free things people can do, right now, without needing to wait for anything, without needing to learn anything, without needing any equipment, friends or money.

1. You can start learning languages right now.

2. To learn to play an instrument, you'll need the instrument. Instruments are not especially cheap...

But you can make your own instrument.
Complete the DIY Instrument Maker challenge. Make simple kiddie instruments. Those things can be used to create surprisingly complex music... don't underestimate them.

Also, you can start training trumming using things like pots and pans and cardboard boxes and tabletops.

Learn to whistle. Learn to whistle really loud. Learn to whistle using fingers and without. All you need is lips. :-D

Learn to play a comb. Or a strip of paper. Or leaf of grass.

Make a willow whistle. Or a reed whistle. Or what ever.

Costs nothing, most people have already all the necessary equipment, doesn't require friends.

3. You want to learn to drive? Fly?
Great.

1) Find out where and how and how much will it cost. Start saving. Find out the requirements and start training to fill those requirements.

2) Start learning things like traffic rules and safety considerations and mechanics and maintenance of the vehicle you wish to learn to drive.
Know how a car engine looks.
Know how to change the tires.
Know how to fill the tank.
Go to the closest gas station and ask the people there if they could show you how that's done.
Learn the theory.
A lot of that information is freely available online, a lot of more information is in the library. Both free.

Also, think back in time when there were no aeroplanes and motorcycles - not even bicycles - and cars... someone invented all those things. It is fully possible to build your own car or airplane. Some people start with miniature versions, and build soapbox cars and bottle rockets and model airplanes. That's not a bad hobby for someone who wishes to learn to control motorized vehicles...
It also comes with other benefits, like making new friends, getting friends all over the planet, getting a reason to go to places and do things... and as you start small, the costs are pretty small as well.
Also, soapbox car derby is really fun.

Another thing to do:
Find out when the next classic car meeting is in your area or close-by.
Find out where the closest classic car owner in your area is.
Befriend him/her.
Ask how you could be part of the meeting, how you could pay for your part, like seeing that you are appropriately dressed. Like bringing the picnic.
Get the required skills to see that you can meet the demand. Anyone can learn to sew. Anyone can learn to make costumes. Anyone can learn to cook and prepare a great picnic basket.
Ask him/her to teach you about the car, mechanics, maintenance and other such things.
When the day arrives, go and enjoy your time.

5. Learn card games

6. Learn card tricks or coin tricks

7. Learn to use both your hands equally well. Or almost equally. Learn to use your feet as well as your hands.
During the previous centuries people believed that lefties were under devil's influence, and that's why people were forced to learn to use their non-dominant hand. And that's really all it takes.

8. Go out and speak with 10 strangers.
Go and talk with people who have it harder than you.
Do the 100 strangers project. All you need is a camera. Any camera will do. One can get pretty cheap digital ones. Frankly, the one in your mobile phone is good enough. You could also get "take a photo every day for a year" completed. Do a 365 strangers project :-D

9. Live, not just exist
Classical Hindu thought accepts four proper goals or aims of human life: dharma, artha, kama and moksha.
Dharma is righteousness, ethics.
Artha is livelihood, wealth
Kama is sensual pleasure.
Moksha is sort of nirvana. Liberation of the cycle of life. In the psychological sense, moksha connotes freedom, self-realization and self-knowledge.

Now... what could you do right now to take a step to these goals? None of them requires money, equipment, classes or friends.
Think about it.

For example, dharma could be RAK
Artha - create a budget and start saving
Kama - use your senses. Mindfulness. It's not just sex. It's all things that give us pleasure, like beauty, good food, poetry. Enjoy beauty and pleasures with all your senses. Get some Epicureanism in your life. Everyone feels better. And as we live in an amazingly beautiful world, there's free beauty available for everyone, all the time.

10. Learn to throw a ball really well. Costs only a tennis ball.
There's also a lot of ball games one can do alone, and require nothing but the ball. All the information needed is free on-line.
Make a sling and learn to use that really well.
What about learning to juggle? That's also almost free - you only need three oranges, or some balloons and rice, and you are good to go. You don't need any nice, professional juggling equipment to learn.

11. Learn parkour
Start with learning to fall safely.

12. Give to charity. Donate. Volunteer. 

13. Joining a gym is one of the most regretted things to put on your bucket list.  It's just waste of money, unless you have a training routine in place. It's better to get that training routine.
Do the 100 push-ups challenge. Totally free.
Do the C5K challenge. That only requires running shoes.
Do the 20 pull-ups challenge. Totally free that too.
Take any of the free fitness challenges online and stick to it for a month before even thinking about joining a gym. Better yet, stick to it for a year. 

14. Start walking

15. Take the 100 species challenge. Or any other of these dozens of free nature observation thingies. Learn to forage. Play in water, snow, leafs, sand... Learn to make dorodangos. Or just go out in the nature and enjoy it. Nature is beautiful. Wonderful. Delightful. Lovely. Peaceful, calming, serenity inducing.

16. Find about the free events in your town/neighborhood, and go.
Or even better, volunteer to work at an event. You'll get to the "backstage" and you might even get paid!
Anyone with money can go to a concert or a convent. Having actually WORKED on one is much cooler, rarer and cheaper.

18. Learn to sing.
Amira Willighagen went viral after singing opera in Holland's got talent, and she learned by imitating opera singers online, youtube videos. If she can, you can.
There are also a lot of "how to" videos on singing, like heavy metal screaming and using your falsetto voice. Or beatboxing. You could try to copy Michael Winslow.
Totally free.

19. Learn to dance anything you want. There's resources online, if you just bother finding them. Learn to dance samba and start saving for a ticket to Rio. Next Mardi Gras! Yay! Or dance tango in Argentina!

20. "see the sunrise and sunset of the same day"

21. Learn about your family tree.
Talk with your elder relatives. Record their stories. Check what things they have done you would like to add to your bucket list. Most of those were probably free.

22. Cook a new recipe.
Try a free recipe online. Most recipes are online.
If you want to cook a recipe from a cookbook, don't go and buy a new one, those are too main stream. Go to a used books store and buy yourself a cookbook from 70s or 40s or 19th century and try those recipes. Much more fun and original. And cheaper.
Or you could go to your closest relatives (older than 40) and ask them to teach you to cook.
Remember that both Nigella Lawson and Delia Smith are self-taught...

23. Climb rocks, trees and fences around you. Doesn't cost a thing, no equipment needed, and no rock-climbing wall needed. You know those don't grow in trees. Like climbing trees do... ;-)

24. Get a friend. Get a girl/boyfriend. Get married.
Get hobbies. Talk to people. Talk with people. Ask someone you like out for a real date. Really scary. You could also check out the "do something scary every day" from your list.
Learn to talk with people. Have a goal to talk to a stranger every day.

25. Get a tarot card reading
Go here: http://www.tarot-live.com/tarot_start.php (or any other free tarot reading online site. There's tons) and fill in the questionnaire, push a button, and, voilà, you're done!
Yes, it counts.
Yes, it's as much information as most tarot readings.
Yes, it's just as accurate.
Doesn't cost anything and you can do it every dang day if you want to.
There are also other oracles and divination methods available, if you want to check out some other ways of reading your future. There's even the magic 8 ball.

26. Write Out A Monthly Budget To Stick To - Start saving money
If you make a functional, realistic budget and stick to it, you will be able to check out "get debt free" from your list, too, and get all the money you'll need to complete all the other goals from your list, like traveling etc.
(The secret of getting rich is not the ability to make a lot of money, but the ability to NOT USE a lot of money. Most millionaires have very humble lifestyles. They also can afford to buy "real shit" and not the cheap stuff that doesn't last. So they can manage with one pair of shoes their whole life...)

27. Early to bed, early up.
Also, "stay awake 24 hours" is a goal quite a lot of people have on their bucket list.
"Sleep only 4-5 hours a night" is another one.
None of these goals require any specific equipment or money or friends to complete.

28. Read books. Libraries still exist.

29. Watch movies. Watch tv series.
I mean... come on. We all know you can watch movies and tv-series for free online if you just bother a bit. Sure, the copyright watchers are hunting and shutting down these sites as we speak, closing accounts, and such, but they always pop up somewhere else.

30. Week without television, mobile phone, internet, using only stairs... abstinence is great, because it's totally free!

*bonus :-)
Celebrate special days. Frankly, the only thing necessary is the intention.

Complete a goal every day for a year

"I'm trying to do this one but I'm low on money and have no friends.
I don't know how all those free-spirited women in movies do it. They make it look so easy to just walk out their door and have adventures. Maybe I just need to have a more positive aura. I'm probably blocking opportunities with my negativity. I've been trying hard lately to embrace life and do as many new things as possible but keep coming back to "need a better job" and "this would be fun or easier to do if I had at least one best friend""
said Niala on Bucketlist.

So, how to do this if you don't have any money or friends?
You know, most people don't have much money or many friends with whom to do things.
But most people's goals don't require money and friends to be completed.

Firstly, some goals cannot be completed in a day. Like "Watch the 250 best movies at IMDb". It would be better to change this goal into "complete 365 goals this year".

Secondly, Niala has listed over 400 goals. There's bound to be things you want to have done that can be completed without money (or with little money) and with no friends, or by making friends while completing it.
More about that later.

Thirdly, you can do this like Zombiegirl and write a precise list with dates, that will be easy to follow and complete, or you can have a "goal bowl" or "daily goal jar", and just pick up one and do it. To be able to do it this way, you need to choose goals from your list that you can do right now, without anything more than what you have right now.

Suggestions for goals that are completable in a day without money (or with little money) and with no friends

1) Divide your bigger goals into part goals that can be completed in a day.
Examples of this kind of goals are:
- lists of movies to see. Watch one movie a day. (remember to add "watched a movie a day for a week/a month/a year")
- lists of books to read. Read 1/7 of a book in a day. (remember to add "read a book a week for a year")
- if you plan to watch every episode of --- or listen every song on an album / by a certain artist, this can be achieved one piece/episode/album a day.

2) Go through your local events and see if you can participate in any for free, or if they need volunteers

3) Write a page / chapter / x number of pages / x number of words a day

4) Practice --- an hour (you will be able to learn anything if you practice one hour every day for a longer period of days.

5) Learn a new word every day / 10 new words (in a foreign language) / 10 new signs (sign language)
Very few people can learn a new language in a day, but you can learn a limited part of the language in a day. x number of words or sentences. Translate a sentence / x sentences / page of a book. Watch a movie / episode of a tv series. Read a comic book in target language.

6) Train a new habit every day. For example, there are already planned programs for a lot of physical challenges like "Couch to 5K" or "100 push-ups", and all you need to do is to transfer the program to your "goal a day" calender and make the partial goal; each step of the road your goal of the day.

7) Bake/cook a new recipe. Learn to bake/cook something. Bake/cook something and eat something you haven't eaten before. Eat something new.

Remember, unless you have defined that the result must be "perfect", look nice, taste wonderful, be made by all the rules of the book, you just need to bake/cook it to be able to say you have baked/cooked it.
You don't need to like it.
You don't need to make it ever again.
You don't need to save the recipe.
You just need to do it.

8) season related goals
- if there is snow in the area where you live, check off the "build a snowman", "make a snow angel", etc. goals, one each day.
- Go to a beach and build a sand castle. Heck, you don't need to build the sand castle on a beach. You can build in in kid's sand box. 2 years old kids know how to build a sand castle.

Yes, this is a sand castle.
Yes, it counts.
Yes, you pack a mold full of sand and turn it out of the mold.
Voilà. You're done.

Go read some season related "family bucket lists" or "(season) to do lists"
Get the "play in autumn leaves" and "go skinny-dipping" goals completed.

9) Kiddie-things
There are these "things kids should do before growing up" lists. Most of those are things that are quick, easy and free. You can use them to fill some "difficult days".

10) Climb a tree, a rock, a fence...

11)  be a moderator for a fan site, have a blog, etc. etc.
There really are no requirements. Anyone can create a Wiki for any subject or a bigtent group, or get themselves a blog, a twitter account, a tumblr account, Facebook account...

Now, if you want to get a SUCCESSFUL net endeavor, you need to work for it. Write into your daily calender weekly blog updates etc. There's a lot of free and good information and help about blogging and becoming a good blogger.

- be active, be reliable

- follow others, leave comments, likes, respond to tweets - be the kind of follower you'd want for yourself
- reblog, retweet
- be positive, polite and avoid irritating, flammable or sensitive topics. Be respectful, kind and generous.
- blog about things you are interested in
- create original content
- tag your posts
- have a common theme with your social media, connect the different accounts, and get active on Pinterest and Instagram (if you have a good smartphone)

12) Celebrate xxx
There are hundreds of different "national day of this and that" days. Every day is the day of something. If you find nothing interesting to celebrate, celebrate your unbirthday. That's 364 days a year.

13) start writing a journal
A dream journal, health journal, book journal, movie journal, what ever journal - get a cheap composition book, a pen and start writing. It really is as easy as that.
Now, if you want a fancy art journal kind of thing, or do Project Life, scrapbooking in a specific way, if you want to have a fine, expensive journal and a good, expensive pen - or a lot of them - that's going to cost a bit more. But you don't NEED them. All you need is pen and paper. And the most important, essential ingredient. YOU TAKING TIME AND SITTING DOWN TO DO IT.
Frankly, it's better if you start with a cheap composition book and a cheap rollerpoint, and save the expensive stuff to the day when you can trust that you will actually do the work, when you have got in the habit.

14) Answer this questionnaire or that.
Again, just do it.
- 50 questions that will free your mind
- 5000 questions survey

15) Learn to play ---
Just pick what you want to learn to play, divide the chore in pieces that you are comfortable completing in a day, and go for it. For example "learn to play guitar 1/30"
And, yes, you can learn to play a guitar in 30 days. But you won't learn to play guitar WELL in 30 days. You won't be able to play EVERYTHING with a guitar after 30 days. You won't be able to join a band as a guitarist. You are not a guitarist. But you know how to play a guitar. You are still a beginner, and you will need to practice a lot. Like 1/2-2 hours EVERY DAY to become GOOD. But you can play a guitar, and you know if you want to keep playing guitar and you know your way around the guitar so much that you can start experimenting with more advanced playing.

It's like knitting. You can learn to knit in a day. But you won't be able to buy any pattern and think you'll manage.

16) Learn a craft
As said, you can learn to knit in a day. Heck, it doesn't take more than some 15 minutes. It's not difficult. That's how Kaffe Fassett started :-D
Most crafts are easy to learn, difficult to get good at. ;-)

17) Memorize --- (song lyrics, poem, Bible verses...)

18) Have a picnic

19) Improve ---
That's a question of practicing. Anything practiced improves your skills in it.
You could for example choose to improve your signature. The way to do this is to write your signature over and over and over and over again...
Or "improve my British accent"

20) Random Act of Kindness

21) Roll a cherry stem with my tongue

22) Send a postcard to post secret

23) Sing karaoke in public. A lot of pubs and bars have karaoke. A lot of them have it free. All it takes is for you to find out where the closest one is and go on a karaoke night and do it.

24)  Sleep only 4-6 hours a night / Sleep under the stars / Watch the same day's sunrise and sunset / Be awake from sunset to sunrise

25) Spend the Day BLIND

26) Wear a bikini / wedding gown / what ever
- Go to a store and try on one. Done.

27) Write a letter to my future/past self  - Write a letter to ---

28) Write with a quill and ink - you'll need quill, ink and paper. Then it's just to write.

29) Write with my blood as ink
Probably easiest with an dip pen.

30) Donate money/time/extra items

31) Finance a kickstart project

32) Donate blood
(Find out the rules where you live. I can't donate blood because of my medication. It also takes about a month before the initial tests are done for a first time donator or someone with a longer pause.)

33) Plant a tree
I suggest you plant apple seeds from the next apple you eat, and cultivate them until they are about 10 inches. Then you take a pot and a garden trowel with you when taking a walk, and plant the sapling in a nice place, preferably in a place where the grass is not cut and where people don't walk a lot, so that the tree may grow. In some 10 years your apple tree will produce fruits.

34) send a message with a balloon / send a message in a bottle / hide a secret in a library book / hide a secret in a book in a book store

35) Be a Tourist in You Own Town

36) Complete a 1000-Piece Jigsaw Puzzle (Perhaps not in a day...)

37) Finish a Crossword Puzzle

38) Have a Collection
Well... practically you would need more than one or two things to have a "collection", but let's say that you plan to start collecting turquoise jewelry. Then your first piece is the "starter piece of your collection"... and theoretically it IS a collection.

39) Invent something

40) Join a book club. (Or any other club)

41) Learn the Heimlich Maneuver

42) Learn to Juggle
It really takes just a couple of minutes to learn the actual technique, but getting good at it takes quite a bit longer :-D

45) Leave My Mark in Graffiti

46) Make a Balloon Animal

47) Own an Original Piece of Artwork
Take a piece of paper. Make art. Done. You now own an original piece of artwork.
Oh, you meant by some REAL artist? A piece that's actually GOOD?
Go to Etsy and buy one. Or any other art selling site.

48) Share Your Most Embarrassing Moment

49) Start Fire Without Matches. Yes, you can learn to do this right now, with what you have right now, and you'll learn this in a day. (Well... with certain reserves... if you are in prison, for example, you probably won't be able to do this. Right now...)

50) Surprise Someone

Traveling...

A lot of Bucket Lists are about traveling, or have at least one travel goal. People want to see a specific place, travel around the world, set foot on every continent or visit every capital or follow a list or another.

Traveling is really easy goal.

All you need to do is
- find out where you want to go
- find out how to get there
- find out how much it costs
- find the money
- take time off and
- go

There are thousands of sites online giving you tips and advice on everything from how to pack your backpack to which stores to visit in Paris.
There's even quite a lot of resources to help you travel cheap.

Here's a couple

Do you need to be rich to travel the world?
No. But there are a couple of qualities that help. If you like people and company, and meeting new people every day, if you don't mind some (or a lot) uncomfort time to time, if you are not picky when it comes to food or where you sleep, if you have the will and health, you can travel very cheap.
And you can learn all that. To like people, to love company, to love meeting new people every day, do not mind uncomfort, to eat anything, sleep anywhere, to will and even to some extend you can control your health, too. It doesn't hurt anyone to be in good physical condition, and the conditions you can't control, won't stop you from traveling.
Most of the time. There are some conditions that have to be considered, like having AIDS. Some countries refuse to let in people who are sick.
Anyhoo

The Ultimate Guide To Traveling When You Have No Money

Travel Without Money

 9 Ways To Travel The World For Free (Or Even Get Paid To Do It!)

How to travel the world for free (seriously)

but... you need to consider the downsides of this too.
10 reasons why traveling for free is BS. There's always pay. SOMEONE must always pay... and it's not fair to force someone pay for your fun, especially when that someone has less than you.

Using DIY.org to help you set steps

DIY is a site made to help kids reach their goals, make things, learn new things and experiment. So someone has already thought out a plan. It is build on the scout merit badge idea; you takes steps beginning from something simple, and as you finish the step challenges, you'll learn necessary skills to manage the further challenges.

For example; here's how to earn a filmmaker badge and here's how to earn an illustrator badge.

Finding more time to do what you really want to do

How to accomplish anything in an hour a day: the magic hour method

So - where do you find that hour?

"But we all know that those hidden hours exist, buried in unnecessary meetings, inefficient work processes, interruptions, false starts, PowerPoint perfection, misplaced files, and a host of other time-wasters."

- Ron Ashkenas

Nearly everyone feels short on time and stressed out. But successful people have learned the secrets of time management and figured out how to invest their time for a good return, rather than spend it away. They know what’s really happening when we think we’re managing our time, and they have eliminated the worn-out feeling of not having enough time. Maybe most importantly, they know how to say “NO” to low-priority activities that put their goals on hold.

Here are 4 questions that will begin help you find more time immediately. These successful folks have asked themselves hard questions like:

    “How do I waste time?”
    “Do I spend enough time on activities that are truly important to me?”
    “What gets in the way of including those activities in my schedule?”
    “How can I stop wasting time and start investing it wisely?”

They have also asked themselves fun, dream-building questions like:

    “What activities could I devote time to that would fulfill me?”
    “How can I make more time for my priorities?”
    “If I had nine more weeks in every year, what would I do with them?”

How to find 3 extra hours EVERY DAY!

1 Get your sleeping under control.

Find your circadian rhythm, and follow it. Edison said that people don't need more than 3-4 hours sleep, but I have been sleeping for 6-7 hours a night for a couple of years now, and it's not working for me. I managed more when I was younger and actually slept at least 8 hours a night. 9 was even better. For Edison 3-4 hours worked, for me it's 8-9. How about you? Don't just guess, or believe Edison, or me, find out!

Find out if you have sleep apnea or some other problems that effect the quality of your sleep, and do something about it.

2 Most people get things done in the morning. If you are one of these people, get up earlier. And get up when you wake up.

3 prepare the night before as much as you can to make the next morning pass fluently. See that everything is packed and ready to just take with you; set the coffeemaker, take a shower, put your clothes ready... you get it.

4 Have a morning routine and evening routine. Give 15 minutes every morning and evening to the household, not only to brushing your teeth and taking a shower, but do the dishes, wash one machine of laundry, etc. etc.
It would, of course, be best if you could pay someone to keep your house, to get more time to do things you want to do, but that is not possible for most of us.

5 Owning things takes time from doing things. The less you have, the more you do.

6 Have a place to every thing, and keep the thing in that place. You won't be wasting time in looking for things, and cleaning goes faster.

7 Delegate and outsource. If someone else can do it, let them.

8 "method engineer" your chores. Catch the seconds wasted in inefficiency. How can you speed up your shower? How can you speed up your breakfast routines? Could you do the previous day's dishes as the coffee brews? Would you get faster to where you are going if you took the stairs instead of waiting for the elevator? What do you do during the elevator trip? How about the necessary movement from place A to place B? Commuting, driving to the supermarket, traveling?

Keep a diary of everything you do during the day, note every 15 minutes’ chunks of the day, like you were keeping a food diary. Write down what you do, how much time it takes/took, if you did many things or just one thing…
You need to know how you use your time to know how you could use it better.

There are two kinds of people from whom you can learn efficiency: very busy people and moderately fat people.
Busy people have no time to be wasted and MUST do several things at the same time. Fat people have the most effort efficient ways of doing everything. That's one of the reasons to why we are fat. You know the people who say they eat a lot but are really skinny? They are probably really fidgety, active and immediate people. Their way of doing things takes much more energy than the fat people's.

9 Another part of method engineering is evaluating the chores and skipping all that is not necessary. A lot of people do things just because they are used to do things in that way, not because it's necessary.

For example: in a factory they used 12 rivets to put something together. The method engineer wanted to see if they could do it using only 8 rivets. No.
9?`No.
10? Yes.
So - 2 rivets saved, and the time it took to put the rivets in place.

Do you iron your clothes? All clothes? You don't need to iron t-shirts and panties. Really. Or sheets. Stop that. Don't buy clothes that have special care requirements, like it must be dry-cleaned.

There was a test of some sort. A scientist came to a room full of children, and opened a jar after doing some unnecessary movements, like shaking the jar, tapping on it etc. Then he asked the kids to open the jar. If the kids were neuronormal, they did the same unnecessary movements as he had done. Neurodifferent kids just opened the jar without the unnecessary bits.

So - what are your "unnecessary movements"? Don't do things you don't need to do.

* WARNING *

There is one rather big risk when you start method engineering your life. Most of us cut off as unnecessary things kindness, consideration, politeness, decency, good manners, caring and loving, compassion, social convention... and that is not good. Human species is created to be social. The benefits of all this are much greater than any excess seconds spend in helping your neighbors and co-citizens. Also, by cultivating the relationships with other people, you get invaluable contacts that can help you reach your goals. Get friends. With all kinds of people. You never know how they can help you in the future. Never.

10 Make a meal plan and follow it.
You won't need to wonder what you'd eat. You have already decided and shopped the ingredients. That way you will save money and eat better, which gives you more energy. Also, if you are overweight, the chances are that by simply making a meal plan and shopping lists, you lose some weight. (Which gives you more energy.)
Get used to serial cooking, and freezing meals. (Serial cooking is making several dishes at a time, or after each other, that use the same ingredients, so that you can prepare for several meals at one go. Like frying minced meat or cooking several chickens at once. This way you can buy bigger packages of food, and most likely get it cheaper. If you are alone, cook every weekend and freeze the food in portions.)

11 Make shopping lists and follow them.
Do your grocery shopping only once or twice a week. Don't run to the shop just to buy one or two items. Do without, put them on the shopping list and adjust your plans to the missing items.
And eat before you go shopping. That way you spend less time and less money shopping.
Write your shopping list according to sections in the store. They keep most of the dairy in one place, and most of the meat, and baking items etc. Get familiar with how your usual grocery stores are organized, and make the shopping list so that you can just walk in, walk through the shop and walk out, without needing to run around and looking for things, and visit the same section several times.
Lift the items on the counter in the order you wish to pack them, and pack them according to where you put them in your home. That saves time in packing things in the store, and packing things up at home.
Have several reusable grocery bags, to save money and environment, and also to stop the accumulation of plastic and paper bags.

12 Effectify your wardrobe. Have a capsule wardrobe and the trimmings, where everything goes with everything else; looks good on you,; makes you feel good, and is functional and customized for your life style and needs. See that everything is clean and fixed, so that you can at any time just take some clothes and put them on you, and feel well dressed and nice looking all the time.
No more need to wonder and worry about what to wear

Also, stop using makeup. Most men don’t use makeup, ever, so why would women? It takes precious minutes to put it on, to keep it on and to take it off, minutes you could be using to something useful, something that takes you ahead on your plans.
Using makeup also takes money – you need to buy makeup, and it’s not cheap.
It takes up space. You could put something more useful in that space.
Especially if you travel!

And stop shaving. Having hair on your legs and armpits doesn’t effect your senses in any way. It doesn’t make you swim or bike faster, it doesn’t make it harder for you to do anything. It is 100% aesthetic thing, made to make women look like teenagers, girls, children, for their whole life. It’s aching to pedophilia, to be frank. It’s one of the ways the Western society binds women. You are to care about what other people think of you, you are to spend time and money and effort and other resources to shaving, in stead of using this time, money, effort and resources to something sensible, something you want, becoming more you, doing more, getting things done, reaching your goals…
Really!

13 Watch less TV. There MIGHT be some interesting and inspiring things on, but most of it is useless. Don't zap. Close the telly after you have seen the program you decided to watch.

One of the best ways of deciding what you really want to do is to ask you if you would spend the time for that if this was your last day on earth, or if this was the last day of your loved one. Would you, REALLY, rather see the nth episode of a tv drama than spend it with your loved ones? Really?

14 Spend less time on the internet.
You don't need to play any games on-line. Quit all of them. They are all waste of time. Really.
Commit to finish 10 pins on the pinterest before you pin anything more.
If you have more than 100 goals in your bucket list, commit to reach 2 goals before adding a new goal to the list.
Plan your blogging time, and keep the plan.
It would be best if you didn't spend any time at all on the internet, but spend it on doing things.

15 Take minutes from here and there.
Change a meeting from one hour to 45 minutes. Have meeting notes, and keep it short and relevant. If people want to discuss about the coffee, Sandy’s new kid etc. they can do it on their own time.
If you are prepared to give something a half an hour, cut it to 20 minutes.

16 Go through your plans. Which activities are actually beneficial to you and your plan, and which are just taking time from truly important stuff. I don’t know about you, but I get enthusiastically involved in things like discussing politics of another country, or the latest stupid thing a celebrity said, or finding an answer to a question, most often not even asked of me. The world is full of interesting things.
Also, we are often… not too nice, but nice in a wrong way. We easily promise to do this and that for people we like, even when we know we don’t really have the time, and especially when we don’t even know we don’t have the time.

17 Get a diary, planner, time manager, and use it.
Get really good at using it. Learn how to use it most effectively. Use color coding etc.
And use it.
Have a wall planner where you can put your meetings and dates on big, so that you are reminded of them in the morning without needing to waste any time of trying to remember.
Plan at least three days ahead. And follow the plan.

18 Chunk. Group similar tasks together, such as emails and calls. Set time for this, and put the timer on to stay focused.

19 Avoid distractions. Shut the phone, hang “do not disturb” sign on your locked door, put on ear muffs, do what ever it takes to see that you will not be disturbed, because a five minutes disturbance will eat up at least 15 minutes of your time, with the refocusing and all the other things that happen.

Stop multitasking, unless it’s something not important, but something that needs to be done. For example, brushing teeth and reading. Making food and doing the dishes. You can also read the newspaper at the same time. None of those jobs demand full focus and concentration, so there you can multitask.

Finding time to do all you want to do

"They taught us in the fable of the tortoise and the hare so early, most of us dismissed it as a children’s tale and ignored the powerful lesson it contains: Others may be brighter. Others may learn quicker and retain more. Yet whosoever keeps on plodding relentlessly toward the goal of mastering another language, though his gifts be dim, stands a better chance than the unmotivated genius whose dazzle ignited so much envy in high school Spanish class.

Harnessing your hidden moments, those otherwise meaningless scraps of time you’d normally never think of putting to any practical use, and using them for language study – even if it’s no more than fifteen, ten, or five seconds at a time – can turn you into a triumphant tortoise.
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Hidden moments will heal your deficiencies soon enough, but first let’s talk about the unhidden moments, the study time you’ve arranged to commit to your endeavour.

This book is written for those who can’t or don’t want to expend the time or money required to attend formal classes. Successful self teaching is our objective.
If you can take a whole hour every day and devote it to your studies, you’re in excellent position to make satisfying, even dramatic, progress.
If you can devote a half hour a day, you’re still poised for success.
If you can’t commit a regular block of time, if the best you can do is an hour here, a half hour there, and maybe a three hour block of time over the weekend, that’s satisfactory, provided you keep it up and maintain momentum.

Gardens unattained go to weed. Apples bitten into and abandoned turn brown. Likewise, your collection of language data – words, phrases, rules, and idioms – will dissolve into a useless mass if not kept up.

Apportion as much time as you reasonably can and as regularly as you can, and then enjoy the magic as the hidden moments kick in.

A professional financial advisor on radio once urged people to take careful inventory of their financial assets, promising that overlooked and forgotten riches were to be revealed at every hand. Her credibility disappeared for me at that moment. I honestly think I’ve never been at a point in my economic life where I was likely to underestimate my holdings by as much as seventy-five cents! When it comes to time, however, that’s a much more lucrative matter!

You can learn a language in twelve months using only those moments you didn’t realise you had.

We’ve already mentioned a few corners in which hidden moments lurk awaiting liberation. Let’s review them and add some more.
Moments we instinctively bid goodbyes to include those spent waiting for and riding in elevators, waiting for the person you’re dialing to answer, waiting while he puts you on hold, waiting for a long outgoing message from someone’s answering machine to reach its conclusion. There are those moments when you’re helplessly trapped – when someone who’s too good a friend to hang up on delivers an unending narrative requiring no verbal participation on your part beyond an occasional grunt, groan, “dear me,” “gee whiz,” or other appropriate interjection to let him know you’re still there. It’s usually safe to divert some of your attention from your friend to your flash cards. There’s a major payload of hidden moments right there, and we haven’t even gone beyond the elevator and the telephone!
We can take time back from our days just like the Dutch took land back from the sea and put it to work.
What do you normally do when you’re waiting in line at the bank, the post office, the airline counter, the bus or train station, or the supermarket checkout counter?
What do you do while you brush your teeth? You could be listening to a language cassette.
What plans have you made for the time you’re going to spend waiting behind your steering wheel at the gas pump? Or waiting for the rinse cycle? Waiting for the school bus?
You get the point. An honest, thorough scrutiny of your normal week will yield dozens, even hundreds, of minutes that can be put to work learning your target language.
And don’t forget, a scrap of time need be no longer than five seconds to advance you closer to your goal.
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Get your cassettes into action when you wake up, stretch, make the bed, fix breakfast, brush teeth, dry off after a bath or shower, wash dishes, and so on through all the moments when those less ambitious turn on the radio or TV.
Don’t forget, passive listening is better than nothing, but not by much! Engage the English mentally and try to beat the voice on the cassette to the foreign word.

“Harnessing hidden moments” is a three word course in language learning all by itself. It offers a side benefit that has nothing to do with learning languages but has a lot to do with enjoying life.
Look at those other people, those unfortunates who, unlike you, have no intention of harnessing their hidden moments to learn languages or anything else. Look how they wait like zombies in line, their faces masks of boredom and pain. Your boredom and pain will vanish the instant you get into line and whip out your flash cards.

Learning languages can become incidental to daily life. It’s often fulfilling enough just having something useful to do! Remember what Dean Martin said to the slowly sipping starlet: “I spill more than you drink!” Just by using the minutes you’d otherwise spill, you can learn another language. "

- How to Learn Any Language by Barry M. Farber

Here's some other "time tricks", that will help you find the time you need to do all the things you want to do:

Time Tricks to Get More Done

* 2-minute trick (if it takes only 2 minutes or less to do, do it NOW.)
* pomodoro (set a timer to 15 or 25 minutes, work through that time, then have a 5-10 minutes' break, and continue until the work is done)
* find your best time to work - Find out your personal circadian rhythm, and let it work for you by actually going to bed and getting up according to your personal preferences, and planning to work and rest according to your circadian rhythm.

Learning to Learn: leveraging your circadian rhythm
It really is that easy. You listen to your body and believe it. You KNOW if you are a morning person or an evening person. You KNOW when you feel most alert and when you are feeling tired, when you feel energetic and when you feel lazy and sluggish. You know. You just need to listen to your body and feelings, and not what you assume the society and people around you EXPECT you to be and function. In our society morning people are preferred and the society is build to fit their circadian rhythm, but the morning people are not a majority in the society. To get the most out of yourself you MUST find your own circadian rhythm and adjust your activities to it. Not the other way around.

Circadian Rhythm – Getting Back On Track

Leonardo Da Vinci’s Top Six Tips for Getting Things Done

Write the itinerary to your dream

When you set a date to a dream, it becomes a goal.
When you break the road that will take you to the goal into steps, it becomes a plan.
When you take the steps of the itinerary, you make your dreams come true...

"Goals give you passion, purpose, motivation, and drive. You wake up each day with intention: you have a plan and you have direction."

There is a lot of help on-line to help you reach the goals of your life.

1) think about it. Think about your priorities, your heart's desire, what you really want. Because if you don't really want to reach the goal, you won't take the steps either. This is why your core values are important. You need to know them, and do things remembering them, because of them, to express them, to change the world in accordance to them. Otherwise you won't be happy, you won't be working to reach the goal, because deep down you KNOW you don't really want to reach the goal...

Where do you want to be, what do you want to be, where do you want to have been, what do you want to have done in a year from now?

2) choose just a couple of goals to work on at a time.

Write them down, and be VERY SPECIFIC when you do that.

What do you want to accomplish?
Whom do you need to be able to accomplish it?
When do you want to accomplish it? What's the pace?
Where do you want to accomplish this? Where does it need to happen?
Why do you want to accomplish it? What are the reasons behind it, what is the purpose of this dream, what do you expect to reach, to get, what's the benefit of reaching this goal?
Which requirements, which tools, which constraints?
How do you plan to accomplish it?

This reminds me of the Celtic Cross tarot spread.
First you put down a card that stands for you. The core values. Who are you?
Then you put a card over you. This card stands for what covers you, what is going on in your mind, what is the theme of your life right now.
Next comes a card that crosses you, like a bond or a bar. This card symbolises the obstacles in the situation, contrary elements, source of resistance, balancing tendency, factor for change, unexpected events, what's rocking the boat, opposing factors.
Then comes four cards around this pile of cards in the middle.
One is beneath you, that is the ground that you stand on, the foundation of the situation. The hidden influences, the starting point, deeper meanings etc.
One is behind you; that the step you just took, your immediate past. All the factors that has to do with the situation, that have been resolved, all the concerns that lead to this point that are no longer of any concern, things that have been taken care of, things you don't need to think any more.
One crowns you. This card tells about the "birds that have built a nest over your head". It's a picture of the current situation.
One is before you. This card is about the very next step on your road, the immediate future, all the factors that have to do with the situation, that have not been resolved, concerns to be concerned, things to be taken care of, things you need to think next.
So create a "tarot spread" of your dream.

3) Time management

How much time you have to invest?
Just 20-30 minutes a day is enough to do SOMETHING.

4) Make yourself accountable.

It would be nice if you had a friend or anyone whom you could tell about your plan and ask him/her to keep track on your advancement. It is best if that someone is close enough to make you reward or punish yourself in the agreed manner, and do it in a supportive manner. :-D

Think about the things you appreciate in life, and reward yourself for each step you manage to take on the road to your goal.
You can either pamper yourself with a home spa night, or movie night, you can allow yourself to eat dessert, you can pay yourself for each step. What ever rocks your boat.

Think about the things you find hard to do, and use them to punish yourself for each step you fail to take.
You can for example deny yourself the dessert, put some penalty money in a jar, call your irritating aunt, clean something not urgent, but something that would be good to get cleaned. Or "give me twenty". :-D
That way there's some sense and reward even in the punishment.

5) Make your plan so visible you can't avoid seeing it.
Frame it over your bed so that it's the first thing you'll see in the morning and the last thing you'll see before falling to sleep.
Have a copy in your bathroom, so that you see it every time you use the bathroom.
Have it on the fridge door, or the door of the cupboard where you store your morning coffee. A place you can't avoid seeing several times a day.
Tape it on your television. In stead of zapping or watching that show you're really not interested in, do something to help you reach your goal.

SMART

Let's put the art in SMART (goal setting.) 

 

S - Specific  Narrow in on what you want to achieve and the steps you need to take to do so.

M - Measurable Set the due dates and targets along the way (after all its about the small victories).

A - Attainable Understanding our limits allow us to reach for goals that are achievable .

R - Realistic As hard as it is to hear, we can't all be the queen of England. Be real, be successful.

T - Timely Finally set deadlines to hit. This keeps your goals in the forefront of your mind.

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Photography

“Accidently” knock the camera out of the hands of a paparazzi

Don't. They really are just trying to earn a living.
If you don't approve their occupation, stop giving them job. Stop buying any magazines and yellow press papers with celebrity photos. See that everyone you know won't buy them or read them. Burn every one you can find. Block every site on-line with photos of celebrities. See that there are no photos of celebrities around you.
IT IS US BEING INTERESTED ABOUT CELEBRITIES' PRIVATE LIFE WHO CREATE PAPARAZZIS. IF WE WOULDN'T BUY, THEY WOULD FIND ANOTHER OCCUPATION.
Trashing their cameras is not going to change anything.

Buy/own a camera / good camera / professional quality camera / underwater camera / film camera / old fashioned camera / nice lens

Constantly improve my photography / Get better with photography
Learn new photographing techniques
Get into wildlife photography    
Master astrophotography
Learn HDR photography
Have a picture I have taken in a newspaper / magazine / National Geographic
Have an art exhibition of my photos
Have my photographs hung up in a public business
Have calendars containing my photographs sold in stores
Host a photography exhibition for charity
Learn Adobe Photoshop / Learn how to use Photoshop / Take a Photoshop class
Learn to develop photos in a dark room
Make money from my photography / Make over $100 on one of my photos
Sell my first photograph / my photography
Take a photography class / course / digital photography class
Create my own photography tutorial program and products

Take a photograph with a film camera / Polaroid camera
Take a picture through a telescope

Print and frame some of my best photos
Print out and make a framed photo collage of every country/trip i have been on
Take a great picture, print it, frame it and hang it on the wall
Take brilliant photographs that I can blow up and frame for my own house
Take the time to get a few special photos or prints professionally framed and matted
Create a photo calendar / with my favorite photos / with my own photos
Make a coffee table book with my favorite quotes and pictures I have taken

Transfer all photos to digital

Complete a 15 day / month / 365 Day Photography Challenge / photo a day of meaningful things  / 365 SELF photo project

Buy a photo album and fill it
Have a photo album with black and white photos / black / orange / pink / purple / red / blue / green / yellow / brown / grey / rainbow colored things / heart shaped things / star shaped things / skulls

Produce a photo in the same way many, many years later
Re-create ---‘s video
Reproduce an old photo / a family photo / a famous photo

Take a 360° panoramic photo from the top of a mountain
Take a panoramic photo from the highest observation deck of a tall building
Take a panoramic view of the ocean

Photograph a --- / 10 --- / 100 --- / in --- / with --- / during --- / a lightning / foreworks / a shooting star / a bubble popping / a natural phenomenon / something beautiful / something famous / the 12 things to photograph before you die / the most common thing/building/view photographed in your neighborhood / the coolest thing in your city / Northern Lights / a burning dandelion / bubblegum blowing /100 black and white photos / 1000 photos / 5 creepy photos / 5o things that make me happy /100 different sunsets / smoke / the same place every month and make a calendar of it / [some animal] / things I’m thankful for / my child every day for a year / my eye / the sunrise and sunset on same day / under water / from the tallest building you can find / at least 3 things related to a god(dess) in Greek mythology / night sky / of a graveyard at night / all the personalized number plates I see / 

Capture a funny picture that makes you laugh every time
Capture the moment in an award-winning photograph
Climb to the top of a tree and take a photo of the view
Document one month of my life in photographs
Go on a photo trip
Have boudoir photos taken
Have my picture in a newspaper
Have some professional looking photos taken
Have vintage-style pin-up photos taken
Photograph a beautiful sun rise
Photograph a clear shot of the moon
Portrait photography
Sit on Santa's lap and have a photo take
Spend a day photographing the countryside
Take dirty pictures
Take some beautiful pictures at a church
Watch sunsets, take pictures of them and then frame them

Do a perfect water hair flip photo

Photograph lemurs at Madagascar / breathtaking view at Antarctica / Kukenán, which inspired the movie “Up,” in Venezuela / lava flows after hiking up an active volcano / The Creation of Adam in the Sistine Chapel /

Do a time series photo shoot of the night sky in a Southwestern Desert
Hang out in Central Park and photograph a pigeon
Take an Orb Photography Tour in Cassadaga Florida
Take as many horribly stereotypical tourist pictures as possible

Be photographed in front of Mount Rushmore with a “this is colonialism” sign / with the giant “Amsterdam” sign / holding up the Leaning Tower of Pisa / at Platform 9 ¾ / with the Area 51 no trespassing sign / beneath the Hollywood sign / with the Love sign at Love Park in Philadelphia / at the E=MC2 sign in Berlin / in a British phonebooth / on Kannesteinen Rock in Oppedal, Norway / outside of the Buckingham Palace / with the Berlin Wall / with the Yoda fountain in San Francisco California / with the caveman statue in grants pass Oregon / with the Big Pineapple / with a figure in a wax museum / with the bull at Wall Street / at The Devil's Den

Have a photoshoot / with my core family / with three generations (grandparent, parent, child) / with all my children together / extended family / professional photoshoot / with a friend

Have a photoshoot in an abandoned building / Steampunk themed / winter themed / old Western bar themed / bikini themed at beach / in a grave yard, at night, in the fog / in a field of wildflowers / black and white in an abandoned building / on train tracks /a beach photoshoot with a swimsuit model / photoshoot in rain

Be photographed with --- / with [some animal] / with a celebrity / with a guard / at Santa’s lap / with a llama / Lenin in Petrograd / with Shrek / with an Elvis impersonator / with a tiger / with the Naked Cowboy / with the President of the United States / with an interesting stranger / with a drag queen /

Be photographed at --- / when I’m --- / vintage pin-up style / sad faced / crying / sitting for a portrait / jumping / dressed up as a mermaid / carrying a photo of me carrying a photo of me carrying a photo of me carrying…. / feeling on top of the world / cat bearding / in front of a tourist attraction / with my husband every day for a year / sparkler writing / tangled in lights / / with an over-sized object / with balloons / with every gnome I see for a day / with my kids everyday / with strangers whole day long / under water / under water with friends / with a rainbow /"walking away from an explosion" / at the same place through the year / by a professional photographer / completing each item on my Bucketlist and post it in my blog/at bucketlist.org / in boudoir style / naked when pregnant / by a windmill / playing with sparklers / naked / being silly (so that grandchildren have something to gawk at) / in the iconic Breakfast at Tiffany's pose  / holding a ---

Take cute pictures / silly pictures / cute kissing pictures / pictures with my friends / with my spouse in a photo booth

Ideas, volunteer, donate

Donate
Donate $1000 to a charity / a decent amount of money / a million dollars / more than $1,000 to an important cause / over $5000 to charities/shelters
Donate 1,000 / 2000 / 3000 / 5000 / 10.000 / 50.000 grains of rice through Freerice.com
Donate a gift to a child for Christmas
Donate anonymously
Donate blood / platelets / plasma / bone marrow / sperm / an organ
Donate books / old books / new books / to a children’s hospital / colouring books and pencils to the children's ward in a hospital / to a library
Donate care packages to the troops this Christmas
Donate clothes / clothes I no longer use / to a battered women's shelter
Donate food to a charity for Christmas
Donate food to a food bank
Donate my hair to Locks Of Love
Donate Kleenex to Children’s hospital
Donate money and have my name on something: a college scholarship, a bench in the park, adopt-a-xxx…
Donate money to a group home of mentally challenged adults so that they may go somewhere on vacation they have never been before
Donate some money each month to your favorite charity
Donate time/money to Abused/Orphaned Children / to an Environmental cause
Donate to ---
Donate to an animal shelter
Donate to charity / anonymously
Donate to the World Wildlife Fund
Donate toys / at the holidays / to charity

Volunteer
Volunteer with my dog
Volunteer for a full day / on a regular basis / for one year / 1.000 hours / 40 hours of my time / for 200 hours this year / for a week / for a month
Volunteer abroad / for a week / for a month
Volunteer at a blind camp / domestic violence shelter / homeless shelter / hospice / nursing home / soup kitchen/ for a feminist organization
Volunteer to be a storyteller in an orphanage / teaching children / orphanage / youth center / children’s hospital / with Big Brother Program
Volunteer working with elephants / at an animal shelter / Humane Society / cat shelter / with animals / wildlife sanctuary / the elephant nature park in Thailand / the orangutan orphanage
Volunteer at a national park / Royal Gardens / American Prairie Reserve
Volunteer at a chocolate festival
Volunteer at a festival / music event / showplace
Volunteer at Olympics / Special Olympics / 5K event / 10K event
Volunteer at Habitat for Humanity
Volunteer to help build or restore a house
Volunteer at a library / museum / gallery
Volunteer in the community
Volunteer in any activity to help the community / for a meaningful cause / for a good cause / for a cause that means something to you
Volunteer for a charity / in a different country
Volunteer for a political campaign
Volunteer overseas / in Africa / in a third world country / in a developing country / charity in a different country
Volunteer to clean up graffiti
Volunteer to teach English abroad

Ideas, money and academic goals

Earn 6 Figures Per Year
Earn one billion dollars
Earn one million dollars
Earn more than my age
Earn over 40k a year

Have $10,000 emergency fund
Open a savings account
Learn how to balance your own accounts
Achieve 100% freedom from all debt.
Achieve financial freedom.
Achieve six-figure annual revenue for my business
Actually comprehend my finances and taxes.
Have a garage sale and earn up to 100 dollars
Save 50/200/250/300/350/400/500/600 dollars
Save up thoudands of dollars to get a eco carBecome financially self sufficient
Make micro-loans to the poor and provide financial assistance in setting up small businesses at Kiva.
Earn my Certified Financial Planner designation
Open my own Financial Planning firm
Reach financial independence
Create a college fund for my future children
Learn how to invest excess funds to improve your earnings yield.
Set up an emergency fund
Start a scholarship fund for my alma mater
Be debt free
Zero credit card debt
Build assets worth US$____ million.
Leave any wealth or assets I have when I go out to people who really deserve and need them.
Be a Self-Made Millionaire
Become a millionaire
Develop an online business that earns over $3000/month in passive income.
Hold $5,000 cash in my hand at one time
Make at least $200K in a given year.
Write an ebook that earns $6,000+
Launch a digital product that earns $6,000+
Invest a small amount of money in the stock market
Invest in gold
Invest in my children’s education
Invest In the Stock Market
Own multiple investment properties all over the world.
Take $1000 and invest it all by myself and track it and try to make it grow
What you spend your money on shows what kind of person you are, so make sure to spend money to show a person you want to be
Win money for your funny video
Achieve a “location independent” full-time income
Create a Source of Passive Income
Have Enough Money to Do All the Things on This List
Become a millionaire / billionaire
Pay off your debt / pay off your credit card debt / become debt free
Pay off your student loans / pay off your loans / pay off your mortcage
Negotiate for a raise annually
Start a business
Learn to invest wisely
Buy property
Build an emergency fund
Have an education fund
Fund a sabbatical
Retire early
Save money
Participate in lottery
Build a low-impact and sustainable business that generates an average monthly revenue of at least $1000.

Earn a Bachelor’s Degree
Earn a college degree
Earn a graduate college degree
Earn a Master’s Degree
Earn a PhD
Earn my doctorate
Graduate
Complete my Bachelor’s degree
Get a doctorate degree
Graduate from university with a degree
Graduate university
Graduate with a BA
Maybe even get a degree
Maybe even get a master's dergree
Maybe go to university
Obtain a university degree
Take 4 classes in subjects that interest me but are not for a degree
Put more effect into my grades and studying
Obtain a Ph.D